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Food: Fruits and Vegetables

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Name the only dry fruit where a fleshy edible part is present

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Litchi
Litchi is a dry achenial fruit that has a leathery spiny pericarp. The fleshy edible portion of litchi called aril is present between the pericarp and the seed. The aril is the outgrowth of the funicle of the seed at the micropylar end.
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a. Litchi

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